Ashes 2021

[dickythorpe]

https://stories.cricket.com.au/games/Australia-vs-England-08-12-21-8586.html

 

[Cooperman]

A truly miserable display from England and my desire to watch it deep into the night quickly evaporated. The duck from Burns will go down in history and gain the same notoriety as the Harmison ball to third slip. If ever there was a time and a place at which England needed a steady first hour it was here, instead they were demolished.

 

[sainthelens]

A truly miserable display from England and my desire to watch it deep into the night quickly evaporated. The duck from Burns will go down in history and gain the same notoriety as the Harmison ball to third slip. If ever there was a time and a place at which England needed a steady first hour it was here, instead they were demolished.

You love yer cricket like me Coops. Why bat first...was gobsmacked.

 

[PSumbler]

When you bat first and you find yourselves at 13/3 then plenty of questions will be asked.

A very strange decision and another poor batting display - 9 catches says it all, poor all round

 

[Swanjaxs]

First day of the first Ashes test in Brisbaine...
A pitch with a tinge of green (very rare indeed in Australia), heavy cloud cover...
Root wins the toss...
And decides...
To bat first.

Pat Cummins must have thought Christmas had come early

 

[Cooperman]

You love yer cricket like me Coops. Why bat first...was gobsmacked.

I saw a photo of the pitch three days ago and my thoughts then were along the lines of ‘oof, effin ‘ell I wouldn’t want to bat first on that’.

 

[dickythorpe]

Australia 317/7
They could win this by an innings I fear

 

[Muteswan]

343/7 at close. Head scores a ton in 85 balls. Says a lot about our batting.

 

[Squarebear]

Any BT subscribers here? I've just read an appraisal of their coverage of day one (technical woes, laddish commentary). It sounds as bad as England's performance.

 

[Lifelong]

Any BT subscribers here? I've just read an appraisal of their coverage of day one (technical woes, laddish commentary). It sounds as bad as England's performance.

The commentary was almost as bad as England were in the field.

 

[Cooperman]

England heading towards an innings defeat. It’s going to take a phenomenal effort to secure even a draw from this point onwards.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Day 2 of an Ashes Series, and England look a demoralised, beaten team already.

 

[sainthelens]

Personally looking forward to why Root batted first. Then again by the time post match interview comes along hed have had 3 days to think of a reason.
Mind boggling.

 

[Jinxy]

Batting first, persisting with Leach and missing simple chances is costing them for sure.

 

[J_B]

Cummins said he was glad he lost the toss because he was undecided but probably would have batted first as well.